I Was a Teenage Communist
I was a Teenage Communist tells the story of a group of diverse, non-conformist teenagers in high school during the Reagan era. With punk rock music as its soundtrack a group of teens discover Marxism and romance in the heart of Ronald Reagan’s America.
No one could miss the parallels between today and the 1980’s of Ronald Reagan, but the past and the present melt into each other entirely in J.C. Hopkins’ I Was a Teenage Communist, in ringing language - clean, bright, funny and fizzing with energy. Hopkins skillfully stakes out new territory somewhere adjacent to The Outsiders, Heathers and Penelope Spheeris’ Suburbia, until the Cypress High campus, with its divisions, antagonisms, and self-defeating intolerance becomes America itself: everyday, everywhere, right where you are now.
Wesley Stace - English author and songwriter
I was a Teenage Communist tells the story of a group of diverse, non-conformist teenagers in high school during the Reagan era. With punk rock music as its soundtrack a group of teens discover Marxism and romance in the heart of Ronald Reagan’s America.
No one could miss the parallels between today and the 1980’s of Ronald Reagan, but the past and the present melt into each other entirely in J.C. Hopkins’ I Was a Teenage Communist, in ringing language - clean, bright, funny and fizzing with energy. Hopkins skillfully stakes out new territory somewhere adjacent to The Outsiders, Heathers and Penelope Spheeris’ Suburbia, until the Cypress High campus, with its divisions, antagonisms, and self-defeating intolerance becomes America itself: everyday, everywhere, right where you are now.
Wesley Stace - English author and songwriter
I was a Teenage Communist tells the story of a group of diverse, non-conformist teenagers in high school during the Reagan era. With punk rock music as its soundtrack a group of teens discover Marxism and romance in the heart of Ronald Reagan’s America.
No one could miss the parallels between today and the 1980’s of Ronald Reagan, but the past and the present melt into each other entirely in J.C. Hopkins’ I Was a Teenage Communist, in ringing language - clean, bright, funny and fizzing with energy. Hopkins skillfully stakes out new territory somewhere adjacent to The Outsiders, Heathers and Penelope Spheeris’ Suburbia, until the Cypress High campus, with its divisions, antagonisms, and self-defeating intolerance becomes America itself: everyday, everywhere, right where you are now.
Wesley Stace - English author and songwriter